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Print Production as Art Making

For faculty member Dushko Petrovich (New Arts Journalism), publishing is a creative practice. Petrovich runs a small publishing outfit, Paper Monument under the umbrella of n+1. Recently, Paper Monument's collection of artists' writing called Social Medium was highlighted as an editor’s pick by Artnet. Vulture also listed it as one of the best art books of 2016.

Petrovich’s latest project is The Daily Gentrifier, a double-sided broadsheet that will explore the ethical and aesthetic positions of gentrification. While much of the publication will center on New York and San Francisco, a Chicago supplement called The Flyover Flyer will take a closer look at how the creative class impacts Pilsen and Logan Square. To learn more about the project, check out the write-up in the Art21 Magazine.

On the week that Barack and Michelle Obama's official portraits were unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery, Dushko Petrovich, an associate professor in the School's New Arts Journalism department, took the opportunity to writing about portraiture more broadly.

For more than 150 years, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been a leader in educating the world’s most influential artists, designers​, and scholars. Located in downtown Chicago with a fine arts graduate program consistently ranking among the top programs in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, SAIC provides an interdisciplinary approach to art and design as well as world-class resources, including the Art Institute of Chicago museum, on-campus galleries​, and state-of-the-art facilities. SAIC’s undergraduate, graduate​, and post-baccalaureate students have the freedom to take risks and create the bold ideas that transform Chicago and the world—as seen through notable alumni and faculty such as Michelle Grabner, David Sedaris, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Hunt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Cynthia Rowley, Nick Cave, Jeff Koons, and LeRoy Neiman.